5G: More Capability. More Complexity
5G: More Capability. More Complexity
Wednesday April 24th 11:00am EDT
Presenter
Ben Thomas, Director of Mobile 5G Business Development, Qorvo
About the Webinar
5G is a new communications standard to serve both new and existing markets. As such, 5G comes with high expectations from both mobile operators and consumers. The existing market of mobile phones is no exception. 5G marketing hype is high and pressure to deliver on the billions of dollars spent on 5G spectrum is even higher. Realizing a successful 5G handset deployment comes with significant challenges. We are seeing an unprecedented impact on RF architectures, components, and technologies. Our aim is to first outline some of the complexities derived from the latest 3GPP 5G communications standards. Then, by analyzing macro level handset RF architectures as well as front end module functional blocks, we will describe the resulting RF impacts.
About the Speaker
Ben Thomas is Qorvo’s Director of Mobile 5G Business Development. Prior to this, Mr. Thomas held various positions such as Director of Technical Marketing, Advanced Cellular Power Platforms, Director of Corporate Relations, Business Development Manager and other sales roles throughout Asia. In addition to his current position at Qorvo, he also serves as the company’s delegate to the 3GPP RAN4 standardization body. Mr. Thomas received his MBA from Wake Forest University’s School of Business and his BSEE at the Georgia Institute of Technology.